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| The trouble with lawn mowers is they beat the crap out of everything all the time. A lot of people could go back a reel-style mower if they needed to. At a driving range with some adjacent turf where I worked, we ran a Jacobsen F10 - 14 feet of mowing swath - throttled back at about 4-5mph mowing speed. The fuel use was a little less than a gallon an hour - gotta love the little ford diesel engines - they clang a lot and make a racket, but they sure do sip the fuel. Anway, think how much gas it would use to do that job with a rotary mower. We usually ran it for about 7 hours to do it all around there, and with a lunch break in that 7 hours, we usually were more than fueled up with a 5 gallon can of diesel.
They're not as perfect as a rotary mower, and they don't do as clean of a job in tall grass, but they sure are a lot better on fuel because you only cut once - with a snip instead of a whack. | |
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What do you do to conserve fuel?
